The Secret Garden Craft Fair

Sherwood Art Week brings together talented artists to exhibit their work in shop windows throughout Sherwood, Nottinghamshire. I am looking forward to following the yarn bombing trail I’ve been hearing about to go and look at the displays this week. There are also some great workshops (unfortunately I wasn’t quick enough to subscribe to the one I hoped to do) so take a look at www.sherwoodartweek.co.uk for full details.

Starting things off yesterday was The Secret Garden Craft Fair. My experience of this started on Friday night as a group of lovely people gathered together to prepare the gardens of the United Reform Church. I can now play my part in constructing metal market stall frames and with luck (or a broom for assistance) put on the covers. In humid evening temperatures the orange squash and biscuits a kind lady was offering was very welcome. Having started work in my day job at 7am and gone straight to help set up in the afternoon/evening getting my own things together late Friday night was a challenge and I was glad of the 8.15am start the next day so I had time to rearrange the unplanned bits of display that went a bit awry.

Still by 11am I was set up to go……..

You are probably wondering why there is a wall behind for the secret ‘garden’ fair, well I was lucky to have an indoor stall as my paper based crafts don’t do well outdoors once they’ve stopped being trees. I should have taken photos of the gorgeous displays outside but this turned into the busiest event I’ve ever done and I never quite got round to it.

Thank you to all the lovely people who came along. I had such a nice day. Everyone was so supportive and I had some wonderful conversations.

Here are a few more images of the stall

It was the first time I’d had my newly designed pencil pots on sale and I was pleased to find new homes for many of them.

Any crafter will know that every craft fair brings the huge temptation of wanting to buy gorgeous goods from the other sellers. As soon as I’d had my first customer I knew I could treat myself to this fab bag from ovrobin

Their website will be up and running soon, in the meantime take a look on Facebook for the latest news www.facebook.com/ovrobin (and if you are looking for a graphic designer check out Ali’s work Gifted Scribble).

Later on I was able to take a quick look round the garden with my umbrella thanks to the British weather and picked up these treasures

Can’t wait to wear this. Take a look at all the beautiful work at Foto Ceramica